106 Dinner
Xiao Nan changed into comfortable home clothes, and Wanyue was pushed in a wheelchair to the exclusive restaurant to eat.
As soon as he came to the restaurant, he was taken aback by the restaurant, and felt that the size of the restaurant in the residence was enough to put five or six tables, and the decoration of the restaurant was made like the home of a concubine in a costume film, and all kinds of furniture and even the arches were made of high-quality mahogany.
The floor is not carpeted, but fine marble, and the table is one with a turntable, which is similar to that of a large hotel.
After he took a seat, he only felt that this table could seat seven or eight people, and it was a bit of space to seat only four people. The people who sat down to eat with him were Wanyue, Mute, and Water Lotus.
The other maids stood and waited. I saw that Shuilian slapped her face and ordered to pass the meal, and there were maids outside who served all kinds of dishes with sterling silver plates, which was just to pass the dishes, and there were also those who were responsible for holding porcelain basins to let them wash their hands, and there were those who held handkerchiefs to wipe their hands, which made people dizzy.
Xiao Nan only thought that this was like a costume drama, and thought it was very interesting, so he really washed his hands, but after all, it was already the era of the Republic of China, and not only some people held water, but also some people held soap.
After washing my hands, the first appetizer has been arranged, there are four exquisite side dishes, followed by eight hot dishes, four fruits, three candied fruits, two kinds of fresh and sweet soup, and tea. Because Wanyue said that Xiao Nan was weak and didn't drink anything, she didn't drink alcohol.
In addition, there were eight maids who put more than a dozen dishes on the long table in front of the round table, which was specially for Xiao Nan to look at, which meant to eat and see three.
"How can the four of us eat so much!" Xiao Nan thought to himself, and then felt more and more that Xiao Mansion was extravagant and wasteful. But after thinking about it, it is said that these dishes will be rewarded to other maids later, and it is not in vain.
"Do you eat like this every day in the future?" Xiao Nan asked.
"If the young master is not happy, we will order a special dish for you in the future, in short, it all depends on your preference." Shui Lian said that she scooped a bowl of lotus seed soup for Xiao Nan and sent it to him.
"This ...... Leave it to Wanyue to decide. Wanyue will be responsible for watching how to change the rules in the house. Xiao Nan said and began to pick up dishes, in fact, he still wanted to eat everything, because the chef's skills here are really different from the chefs in his original yard, the original chef will fry food stall-style dishes, and Wanyue can only cook home-cooked food, the chef here has excellent knife skills, exquisite plating, and it is not ordinary at first glance.
The taste really didn't disappoint, so Xiao Nan was very useful. At this time, it was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the crab roe was plump, and a hairy crab was specially served, each crab was bigger than his palm. Xiao Nan's eyes were fixed on the crab, and he decided to eat it slowly as the last highlight of his meal.
However, Wanyue saw his thoughts, and personally helped him peel crabs, who knew that those maids were well-trained, and brought sterling silver crab peeling props, there were a complete set of more than a dozen, and the movements were skillful, and soon peeled out a small bowl of crab meat, crab paste, crab roe, poured ginger vinegar, added some osmanthus wine, and served a bowl to everyone present, Xiao Nan had eaten such a trouble-free crab meat for the first time, and after adding the secret sauce of Xiao Mansion, the taste was incredible!
It's safe to say that every dish is a gastronomic adventure, with a Chinese soundtrack on the tip of your tongue and all kinds of exaggerated background animations from Japanese anime!
No wonder Furong said that she was "clothed and fed" in Xiao Mansion, and she was also content.
Just when Xiao Nan was immersed in the delicious taste of crabs, another high-ranking maid came over with a pipa and a piano, and began to make music for their meals, and even sang a small song.
There is even accompaniment!
In fact, eating with so many people staring, Xiao Nan already felt very blushing, but he didn't expect there to be such a hardcore after-dinner show.
And the girl sings really well, her singing skills are amazing, I don't know how many years of training it takes to have such singing skills, no wonder those literati like to call a singer to play and sing at dinner.
Shui Lian was in high spirits at the banquet, beckoning to pass the dishes from time to time, and licking the soup and handing the veil to Xiao Nan, because she was too enthusiastic, Wanyue felt a little uncomfortable.
Xiao Nan was probably too addicted to this feast to notice that there was no Hibiscus in this group of maids at all - because of the water lotus's false transmission of the holy decree, Furong was now kneeling in the meditation room, and she was kneeling on the washboard that specially tortured the maids, and there was an old woman watching her next to her.
After eating, Xiao Nan felt that he was going to die, and he said to the maids: "You don't have to be so extravagant to eat in the future, just a few of us can eat enough food, and you don't have to wait for everyone, you can open a single table to eat together, the food in the province is not delicious when it is cold." ”
The maids saluted together to receive the order, and the water lotus let the table be withdrawn, and when the tea came, she said: "I don't know how the master spends the night on weekdays, is he going to listen to music and play cards?" Or is it going to be something else? ”
"Listen to the radio at night." Xiao Nan said, "It seems that it is impossible to sort out the account book of the head of internal affairs today." ”
"What is radio?" Shuilian is illiterate, and the radio is not popular at all in Xiao Mansion, except for a few fashionable young masters, it is basically impossible for female dependents to come into contact, because most of the female dependents in Xiao Mansion are illiterate, and they don't need to care about outside things, and there is no need for radios for them.
However, Shui Lian didn't wonder what this thing was at all, it was a gentleman's thing after all, she knew that she didn't have to ask more, so she changed the topic and said: "I heard that the second young master invited a powerful team to sing, master, do you want to go to have fun?" It is said that he is a famous actor in a famous provincial town......"
"What kind of drama are you singing? What tracks? Xiao Nan asked.
"The master can order any drama he likes to listen to, and it is said that as long as you order it, they can sing it." Shui Lian picked up the melon seeds in the disk and knocked.
"I'm not interested in that kind of traditional art, it's too grinding." Xiao Nan said, "If I have to say what entertainment I like, I like to eat melons a little." ”
"Watermelon! Yes, there are still cold ones in our ice cellar! Shuilian smiled.
Although this melon is not another melon, Xiao Nan still invited these maids to eat chilled watermelon. Seeing that Xiao Nan was not as terrible as rumored to be peaceful, and even quite kind, these maids also became bolder, especially the water lotus, scratching their heads and trying to seduce Xiao Nan, and their words became more and more.
And Xiao Nan didn't seem to mean anything to her.
Shui Lian thought to herself, most of the other young masters were extremely debauched and never restrained themselves, and I heard that a ninth young master was upright, but he also loved a slave and maid to death, and it was said that he was killed by Zhao Taiwu. So how can the thirteen young people be tempted? It's better to know what flavors he likes.
She carefully observed Xiao Nan's attitude towards Wanyue, and found that Xiao Nan did not have that kind of hunger for Wanyue, outsiders said that Wanyue was a thirteen-year-old aunt, but the relationship between the two was not very good.
She only felt that Thirteen Shao was different from any man she had ever seen in her life, and she couldn't tell what the difference was.
Although Xiao Nan was not interested in the noble son's eating, drinking, and having fun, he was extremely interested in listening to these maids tell their stories, and even asked Wanyue to bring pens and notebooks to write notes.
As a scholar, he is very interested in collecting this kind of first-hand historical information on the real life of the people themselves, although it is useless, but he will still have time to collect customs and life experiences of these people.
Because Xiao Mansion pursues that women are virtuous if they are not talented, very few maids can read and interpret words, and they can't understand what Xiao Nan writes, they just think it must be something very powerful, and some people guess whether it is similar to a "confession". But since the thirteenth young man asked, they felt that this was an opportunity to express themselves, and they knew everything.
It turns out that the origins of these maids are still different, some are "selling women" like Wanyue, the family sold their daughters to the house, and the so-called sale was only given to fifty oceans, and they bought a human life, and since then life and death have nothing to do with the family.
And some girls, in order to cling to the Xiao Mansion, took the initiative to send in, not only the Xiao Mansion does not have to give them money, but their own family has to give the Xiao family a large sum of money, and this kind of maid, more noble than the average maid, called "return to the house", which means that there is an opportunity to go home to visit relatives, and even receive objects sent by the family, most of them can be much easier than ordinary people to become the personal first-class maid of the lady's wife, relatively, the resources and connections obtained from the master to supplement the family, but also to make the family soar.
When they are old and decrepit, they can return to their own family and not worry about getting married, because most of these slaves and maids have been mixing well in Xiao Mansion, and some of them are stammering.
This is one of the means used by the Xiao Mansion to gather large and small landlords.
Shuilian is the "maid who returns to the house", her father is actually a small landowner in a small place, and spent a lot of money to send his daughter in, but Shuilian entered the Xiao Mansion to know that there are more strong and strong players, and there are all kinds of "capable people" in the Xiao Mansion.
She struggled to climb up, and in the end she had to follow an aunt wife who was neither high nor low - the fifth wife of the eldest lady, and she was the fifth lady's confidant.
The fifth wife deliberately used means to send her to Xiao Nan, that is, to let her be her own eyeliner. After all, Xiao Nan is now the biggest celebrity in Xiao Mansion.
And Shuilian obviously has her own thoughts, she is not willing to be a stepping stone for the fifth wife for the rest of her life. Don't talk about her, what maid in this house doesn't have her own mind? I'm afraid that like her, she is here to be the "spy" of the original master, and there are many more.
After listening to the stories of these maids, Xiao Nan said: "Although our yard looks very luxurious, the sanitary conditions are not ideal. I am going to build a bathroom for servants, use water from the boiler, distribute soap to everyone, cut their nails regularly, wash their hair and change their clothes, and I will send someone to inspect your personal hygiene. ”
Although he said very scientific health issues, it made the maids change their faces slightly, and these scheming maids listened to Xiao Nan's words, and felt that Xiao Nan was saying that they were dirty in disguise.
Now that Xiao Nan is in this courtyard, every word he says has to be pondered thousands of times by his subordinates. But Xiao Nan didn't know it yet.
"Thirteen young, use hand polish. You've just washed your hands and your skin is dry. Wanyue didn't care what Xiao Nan said, anyway, Xiao Nan did the same thing in the original courtyard. She took out the rose hand cream that Xiao Nan gave her and personally helped Xiao Nan rub her hands.
Wanyue likes this kind of hand polish very much, and she simply carries it with her.
Xiao Nan said again: "Also, I want to set up a tampon processing factory in Xiao Mansion first." Exclusively for the inner government. ”
Wanyue's hand trembled, and the hand polish fell directly to the ground. I didn't expect him to be so obsessed with that! Although Xiao Nan said that it was scientific hygiene, she still felt very ashamed.
Where could Shui Lian understand what Xiao Nan was saying, she just knew to echo, and personally picked up the beautifully packaged hand cream, and when she saw the flower shape of roses on it, she said, "I'm afraid this is the rose balm oil that is trending now, right?" Sister Wanyue is really a blessing, we have never seen such a good thing. Even the wives have never used such a foreign thing. ”
"Then I'll give you this, I have others." Wanyue saw that she liked it so much, so she said, "This is all given by Thirteen Shao." ”
"If you like it, I'll give it to you." Xiao Nan also said the same.
Shuilian was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly thanked her.
Xiao Nan said again: "In the future, as long as the maids above the third class in my yard will be promoted to 'return to the house', I will allow you to go home to visit during a two-day holiday every month, and the account in my yard will reimburse the travel expenses."
Wanyue is responsible for giving you points, as long as you perform well and are rewarded, you will get extra points. Those who are lazy, who make mistakes, who make me unhappy, will lose points.
The lower the score, the lower the welfare package, and if appropriate, the ranking will be downgraded and delegated to the side of the coolies.
On the contrary, the higher the score, the better the treatment. Seven days later, I will approve the scores of the first period, and the person with the highest score in the first period, I will send someone to drive you home to save your family. ”
As soon as he said this, the maids all applauded happily, most of them were selling their bodies, and the master said this, which was a great grace.
Only Shuilian was not very happy, originally her status was a cut higher than these people, but now all of them have been promoted, and they can go home to visit relatives, which makes her extremely unhappy.